David's on the money - Apple menu items. Quite why it failed to show itself as the cause last time is another matter, but yeah, this is it. With the folder on the desktop, the period between seeing the desktop picture, and the start-up partition icon is almost no time at all. Yes, loading the desktop items does take a while, but the partition icon was there first.
Cheers David. Course, now I know it's an unsolvable problem, as I find my set-up very handy. I'll have to move as much as I can off the Apple menu and into A-Dock's favourites, which are not pre-loaded. Should cut down the time noticeably. > Yes, if the Finder thinks the desktop files are out of date, it will > rebuild them. I've seen this happen with a DOS Zip disc, but I always get a dialog box informing me of the rebuild. I rebuilt the desktop database the other day anyhow. As for TechTool saving comments, my version sure does not. They've obviously added that since. I don't buy such ideas as desktop database rebuilding or defragging - pointless wastes of time that get drilled into your head, making you carry them out superstitiously believing they'll work magic on your drive. Nonsense - the only thing a rebuild should do is fix the odd case of a broken association, and Save a BNDL would probably do that for you anyhow. > I do not care for Norton myself. I have had it screw up my drives more > than once. Hmm...works for me - I only got it because a beta program crash left me an error that Disk First Aid couldn't fix. > Not completely true. AppleShare, for example, must scan the disk > before it mounts the files on the network. You mean File Sharing, and I know that, but File Sharing is turned off, and that scanning is only needed if you're sharing disks, which is totally different to actually mounting them with the Chooser. If File Sharing is on at start-up, I believe it occurs after the start-up process is complete. -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
